The Austrians eventually agreed to grant Trentino to Italy in exchange for an alliance, but the Triple Entente (France, Britain, and Russia) made a more generous offer, promising Italy not only Trentino but also South Tirol, Trieste, Gorizia, Istria, and northern Dalmatia.
There are two strands for which the channel is promising generous amounts of cash.
After promising generous welfare spending, the government temporarily froze public sector salary increases, a move that caused a loud outcry from the country's powerful unions.
In the past symphony orchestras competed for and retained top talent by promising generous pensions, so musicians with many years in the Philadelphia Orchestra probably have earned benefits above the insurance limit.
So far the second internet boom has mostly seen big firms paying generous prices for promising start-ups, but in 2008 it may start to look more like the first Bubble 2.0, if you like.
A year later, in what was hailed as Algeria's first free national election, the family said Mr. Bechla voted with millions of Algerians for the Islamic Salvation Front, or F.I.S., an Islamist party, which campaigned promising generous welfare programs.
The coalition is divided over energy policy, with Osborne favouring a major increase in gas use, promising generous tax subsidies to the shale gas industry at last month's Tory party conference.
Many of the people who made the switch were not so badly disabled that they could not work, but once they were drawing disability benefit they had no incentive to get another job.More important, politicians have little to lose by promising generous social-insurance payments far into the future.
ICAS warned that Scotland's larger ageing population was a significant issue, yet Scottish ministers were promising more generous pensions after independence.
They can so claim, for reasons suggested by Frum's last line: Because they are promising more generous federal benefits than fiscal conservatives, whether through unemployment insurance or Obamacare or ultimately through Social Security or Medicare.
